The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 16, 1923, Image 1
volume xxxvn
CANNON YOUTHS
UNDER CHARGES
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Give a Merry Chase With
Rackety Old Ford
Car.
FOUND ASLEEP IN THE CAR
Qtttarged With Larceny of
Machine and Lot of
Tobacco
Out of the sticks in the direction of
Loris, Dillion, ' McColl, and perhaps
other places in the Eastern part of
South Carolina conies a story of action
with an old worn out Ford touring car,
mixed up with the alleged taking of a
load of leaf tobacco by means of the
old Ford, and the landing of two
youths in the county jail.
Neil Cannon and Furn Cannon,
young men about twenty and twentyone
years of age, apparently, were
placed in the county jail some days
ago under charges of taking and carrying
away this Ford touring car and
a load of leaf tobacco, all of it together
being of the alleged valuation of
five hundred dollars. The Ford belonged
t.O Doilirl'is: Snrvi3 If ic !iltoirorl
that the tobacco also belonged to him,
but the defendant Furn Cannon claims
that he was entitled to an interest in
the tobacco by reason of sharecropping
arrangements on the lands of
Douglas Sarvis, near Loris, in this
couuty. The two young men were arie*jrted
on Sunday night after they had
lefCvwith the car and the tobacco on
the Thursday before.
Douglas Sarvis states that he left
home on Thursday morning with a
wagon load of tobacco for the warehouse
at Loris. After he had gone
Furn Cannon drove out this old Ford
and began to load it with leaf tobacco.
Mrs. Sarvis thought this was strange
and perhaps against the wishes of her
-w husband, and she asked Cannon what
I ; he meant to do. Cannon said that it
was agreeable with Mr. Sarvis for him
to load the tobacco and take it off to
market. To others it appears that he
told that he had bargained to buy ,this
car. At some*place in the joijmey
which the,Ford took expensive repairs
^ivere ^ade to it so that it got a new ,
ra*se of life.
As soon as Sarvis found this out he
placed the matter in the hands of rural
policeman J. K. King. Mr. King
went on a hunt for the Cannon boys.
They were traced to Dillion, S. C.f and
it appears that they also visited Mfc
Coll, S. C. There is no telling how
many more places they visited. The tobacco
was missing* when the arrest
was made. King kept looking for them
and on Sunday night, back in this
county, near the home 1 of' Arlington
Prince, the officer discovered 'a car ,
drawn up and stopped. On examination
it was found to be the Sarvis car
and ^jjside of it, both asleep, he found
Furn'tuSd Neil Cannon. It appears that
Neil Cannon had nothing to do with
the packing of the tobacco on the car,
but it appears that he was with his
brother, at all of the subsequent turns <
that the adventure took. Neil was arrested
with Furn and both were placed j
in the county jail under the one war- .
rant. 1
The olfl Ford was without a license .
plate. In order to make an appearance
of having a license, the two Cannons
borrowed a plate from a neighbor. .
They returned into Horry County on :
Sunday night and as they passed the 1
. residence of the neighbor where they 1
had taken the license plate, they .i
threw the license tag by the side of 1
the road in front of the house. i
These boys had been living v ith i
their father, Jim Cannon, on land be- i
longing to Douglas Sarvis, and where- i
i on Jim Cannon is a sharecropper. Furn
j Cannon also claims to be a sharecrop- 1
per on land of Sarvis.
IThe two defendants had taken two
suitcases with them in the car when
thfry left. They said they visited McColl
and a number of other towns, i
Both defendantes are unmarried. '
It was stated here that these boys
had noty^een in trouble before, except
that fjprn Cannon was tried in a magi
straw court on one occasion for misbranding
a lot of goats, or other animals,
and from that charge he was
freed by the jury of his peers which ]
tried him. He says he will come clear
of this present char pre, just as clear as
he did when he was * tried on the
charge for marking the goats.
The warrant in the present case
was sworn out before Magistrate Q
Chestnut of Conway. t
W. B. Norton has resigned his office t
of mayor of Mullins to take effect >n r
August, 31st. Under the administration t
Irlr. Norton the town of Mullins has n
lo treat strides according to re's
coming' from a number of citi- t
s there. He served for one and v
half years. tl
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The fine grades of leaf tobac- \\ ^
;o bring good prices, prices that >? 1 x
ire higher than the common run \\
>f the crop. Such prices are al- j? (A'ays
the result of the hardest Jj ^
rind *of toil and many sleepless * _
-iKhts. ;?|?
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COURT MANDATE
STOPS VENTERS
Cannot Sell Tobacco Crop
in Name of His
Wife
JUDGE .SHIPP'S OPINION
Case Will Be Heard on Its
Merits Later
On
(Florence Times)
Judge S. W. G. Shipp, in a hearing
at the court house this morning continued
the temporary injunction taken
out some time ago by the Tobacco
Growers' Cooperative Association
against W. M. Venters, of Johnsonville,
a member of the association,
preventing him from disposing of his
tobacco other than delivering it to the
association. The plaintiff association
was required to put up a bond of $1,000,
and was eriven 7 davs in whioV? to
get up the bond.
Phillip H. Arrowsmith, attorney for
the defendant in this case objected to
the smallness of the bond and insisted
upon nothing less than $4,000, preferably
$5,000, and when he was overruled
in this he requested permission
from the judge to put up a $2,000
bond and sell the tobacco. This the
iudge emphatically refused to do,
stating that in doing such a thing he
would become a party himself to defeating
the very intent and aim of the
contract, which was to force delivery
of the tobacco to the association. >
. The hearing this morning grew out
of a temporary injunction which the
association took out against Mr. Venters
some time ago to prevent him
from selling his tobacco outside the
association, information having come
to the association that he was preparing
to dispose of his crop on the inde
pennent Tioor. The hearing this morning
was to continue in force the temporary
injunction until such time as
the case might come up for trial in,
court. F. L. Wilcox, of the firm of Wil-'
cox ami Wilcox, and Messrs. Levy and
Joynor, of Raleigh, N. C., represented
the association. i
Mr. Arrowsmith, for his client, at- ,
.tempted to show that W. M. Venters,
against whom the injunction was secured.
did not own any tobacco, but
that the tobacco in question was owned
entirely by his son, E. H. Venters,
and he produced a rental contract to
prove his allegation, as well as various
affidavits from different persons
which bore out his statement. He also
produced a fertilizer contract in which
the fertilise people had sold the fertilizer
to E. H. Venders, who is not a
member of the tobacco association.
Attorneys for the tobacco association
claimed that the rental contract j
was a fraud and that it was only a
sdde step his obligations to the asso- '
ruse resorted to bv W. M. Venters to .
ciat'on rr:l sell his tobacco on th< <
independent floor. Both sides argued
various phases of the law relating to
similar cases, and a number of other
cases where similar contracts had been
enforced. All of these Judge Shipp
dismissed, stating that he had given
the contract careful consideration, and
that the only question in issue was (
whether W. M. Venters was the owner
of the tobacco in question. He mentioned
the Bowen case, which was
tried in his court some time ago, in
which practically the same question
was involved, the difference being
that in the Bowen case the claim was
made that Mr. Bowen, who is a mem- .
>er of the association, had turned over 1
ill of his land to his wife who was not }
a member of the association. It will be .
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rememnerea mat this case resulted in
\ mistrial.
WILL ADVANCE <
FARM STUDIES <
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Green Sea School Sccures J. c
K/Dorman as '
Teacher r
UNDER SMITH-HUGHES I.
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Provisions of Act Passed in
1917 Printed in 5
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J. K. Dorman, graduate of Clemson
College, having finished the courses
his year, has been appointed as prin- ]-,
ipal of the Green Sea school, one of q
he largest and best schools that Hor- ^
y County has, and one which enjoys n
he use of a fine new building' which is a
lodern in every respect. 0
Mr. Dorman has also the position of a
eacher of agriculture under the uvo- ^
isions of an act passed in 1017 for u
he promotion of agriculture in the ?
ree public schools of South Carolina, vv
nd known as the Smith-Hughes act. Jr
In addition to his other duties Mr. ^
>orman will teach a class in agricul- C(
ure. The n?xt term will begin on or
bout September 1st.
Kelley Dorman is well known in '
!onway whore he went through the
turroughs High School and was preared
for the college course which he ""
as just completed this year. He is a a<
oung man of exceptionally pleasing C
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^CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY
I MEDDLERS IN AF
* Some people are too
J others ever to have any ser
| How can a man attend
J is so greatly interested, in tl
$ cannot find time to think oi
% There are many of th
* in trying to run the busines
* time and thought could be '
* own interests.
* There is but the sli
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* meddler and a crank.
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WONDERFUL ADVI
IMMENSE TRA1
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The way to realize and know t
vertisintr and increased traffic, also ii
ing to Conway and Horry County, by n
count of the number of vehicles that p?
On last Saturday, August 11th,
and ending at 4 o'clock on Sunday mo
of twenty-four hours, a perfect record
Highway Department, of every vehic
near the power plant of the Conway 1
The result of the record is asto
form so that it may be studied by eac
Record of Traffic over State Highwa>
11th to 4 o'clock A. ]
Autos Trucks W
6 to 7 A. M. 10 5
7 to 8 A. M. 25 10
8 to 9 A. M. 32 6
9 to 10 A. M. 40 15.
10 to 11 A. M. 50 6
11 to 12 A. M. 45 12
12 to 1 P. M. 30 6
1 to 2 P. M. ^ 46 ' 6
2 to 3 P. M 7 36 13
3 to 4 P. M. 56 8
4 to 5 P. M. 'f' 44 5
5 to 6 P. M. ' 76 6
6 to 7 P. M. ^ 64 2
7 to 8 P. M. * 55 1
8 to 9 P. M. ' 50 2
9 to 10 P. M. 43 5
10 to 11 P. M. 13 0
11 to 12 P. M. 25 0
12 to 1 A. M. 17 0
1 to 2 A. M. 16 0
2 to 3 A. M. 8 0
3 to 4 A. M. 2 0
TOTALS 783 108
Cars Seen from: Columbia, S. C., Floi
Dillon, S. C., Conway, S. C., Murrella I
N. C., Fayetteville, N. C., Camden, S.
Marion, S. C., McColl, S. C., Danville, ^
Atlanta, Ga,, Chester, S. C., Boston, !
Greenville, S. C., Hartsville, S. C., Nasi
PEGLEG MISSES
SUNDAY DRINKS
Gets Prescription For Quart
of Denatured Alcohol
And Arrest
The negro, Champion Bessent, otherwise
known as Pegleg, has had an .
jxperience such as other negroes have
t seems has missed in the recent past
n the course of their experience with
'Paul Jones," the reconstructed denaured
alcohol the changing of which
vas explained to some^xtent in the
ast issue of the Horry Herald.
This negro , obtained a prescription
'or the purchase of one quart of denatured
alcohol. He left the doctor's
>ffice and got the quart as soon as
)ossible. He had no more than stepped
>ut on the sidewalk and was walking
>ff with it, when he was arrested by
ne town policeman.
This arrest was made on Saturday
light. Pegleg was kept in the guard ]
louse over Sunday and then he was li- j
erated and allowed to go at large ,
vith his purchase of alcohol. i
He was doubtless kept confined over
>unday to prevent trouble coming
bout when he got drunk on Saturday
ight or Sunday and might be guilty ;
f disorderly conduct. i
There was no law which could pro- J
ibit the sale of denatured alcohol to ]
im, for in the state in which the liift'd
was handed to him, it was not in- i
oxicating. There would be ju>t i^s t
mch reason in arresting the owner of i
barrel of apples out of which the i
wner might manufacture cider, and c
fter it had fermented would get t
runk and keep this unlawful drink on i
and at his house for beverage pur- 1
oses. Just the same with the man r
ho would buy a box of dried peaches 1
itending to take them with him into c
\e swamp and there make moonshine 1
:>ntrary to the laws of his country. Y
It would appear that there is no law b
rohibiting the sale of denatured al- \
Dhol. As to grain alcohol therq is a d
ifference and wide difference. p
1idress
and fine attainments. The It
rreen Sea School has made no mis-J
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mindful of the business of *
ious business of their own. %
i to his own affairs when he *
he business of others that he *
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it his own problems? *
is kind who spend their time *
s of other people while their *
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DRTISING
FFIC COMING HERE
he wonderful amount of publicity, adlcreased
business and prosperity comneans
of better roads, is to keep an aciss
and note where they come from,
beginning at 6 o'clock in the morning
ming tne izth, Demy: less than a day
was kept by John W. Marlow for the
le passing the Kingston Lake bridge,
Light and Ice Company
nishing. It follows here in tabulated
h and every reader:
r No. 38 from 6 o'clock A. M. August
VI. August 12thf 1923.
Total
agons Carts Buggies Bicycles 1 hr
7 1 6 6 35
0 0 0 0 35
0 0 0 0 38
12 1 5 4 77
8 1 8 5 78
7 0 7 3 74
3 0 2 3 44
7 2 4 7 72
3 2 5 5 64
9 0 8^4 85
2 1 5 ' 5 62
5 3 9 It 110
2 1 13 5 87
3 1 3 0 63
3 ^ 0 ... -?1 , ..2 .,58
0 0 1 0 49
0 0 0 0 13
1 0 0 0 26
0 0 0 0 17
0 0 0 0 16
0 0 0 0 8
0 0 0 0 2
72 13 77 60 1113
rence, S. C., Brooklet, Ga., Loris, S. C.,
nlet, S. C., Red Springs, N. C., Moore,
C., Bennetsville, S. C., Mobile, Ala.,
fa., Batesburg, S. C., Lexington, S. C.,
Hass., Sumter, S. C., Durham, N. C.,
hville, Tenn., Louisville, Ky.
FARMER MAKES
FINE GRADES
S. C. Rabon and Tenant Have
a Nice Load of
Tobacco
Few loads of tobacco ever came to
Conway better than the two-horse wagon
load that rolled into one of the
warehouses of Conway here last
Thursday morning. This big load belonged
to S. C. Rabon and his tenant
who has worked tobacco with him this
year.
The warehouseman looked at this
load and decided at once that this
weed should bring a good price and
we think it did.
The large wagon body was packed
to the very top with the priming
leaves and nothing else. The beauty of '
the long leaves was their condition.
There did not appear to be a stem hi
the whole load that would not snap in
two when bent in the fingers. The layprs
of the golden leaves as they lay in
sheaves on the sticks made a solid
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iiiu.io Ul un line 111 L gUtllCIUlK il.S lilt?
warehouse people had ever looked at.
This load of tobacco is mentioned
here for the reason that it is a fair
sample of the way that all tobacco '
should be handled and cared for if the
grower expects to get a good price for
it.
Mr. Rabon said that he believed in 1
sticking by the home market. He men;ioned
the l>ooster trips of the Conway .
nerchants as having something to do '
n showing him that the business men
>f the town are now interested in '
-heir tobacco market and he believed 1
H sticking by them in their efforts to <
>uild at Conway one of the biggest 1
narkets in this section of South Caro- >
ina. He said that many people would ^
arry their tobacco to other towns and (
eave their checks on deposit in the (
>anks of other towns, and not even '
ring their money bark here to spend t
vith home people. He said that he
loes not believe in treating the home ?
?eople that way. 1
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ake in securing him for the approach- >
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FARMER LOSING
PILE OF MONEY
Example of Bad Grading Found
by Newspaper Man
Here
CARELESS METHODS USED
Ways Whereby Growers May
Learn More and Dof
Better # fr" r
Even a newspaper man who ha?
never had anything to do with the actual
work of producing, curing1 and
marketing leaf tobacco, can see the
mistakes often made by the growers
in preparing and grading the weed for.
the warehouse floor.
This very thing was proved here one
day the last of the week, when a newspaper
man happened to he in the Peoples
Warehouse conducted by Bowles
& Bass, early one morning; after a
large pile of tobacco had been placed
on a basket and was resting at one
side of the floor; having been sold the
day before at auction, going off for
$25.00 per hundred.
The newspaper man met in the
warehouse an old tobacco grower, c re
who has had many years' experience
in growing tobacco and knows about
11 there is to be learned from actual
experience, and one who has made
good at the work as things go.
The pile of tobacco under observa
non must nave oeen more tnan nve
hundred pounds, probably weighed
somewhere between five hundred and
a thousand pounds. .
This man who 'had never had anything
to do with tobacco looked over
the pile in'question and without any
help from the other man who was
looking at it too, decided that he could
rework this pile of tobacco and divide
it into at least three grades, and that
the worst of the three grades when
placed on the floor would no doubt
have brought the sum of twenty-five
cents per pound. Part of the top was
removed and this showed that the
three grades evidently ran through
the whole stack. Hands of the three
grades were hunted out from the topmost
bunches and then the newspaper
man asked the old tobacco grower
what he thought of the conclusion at
which the newspaper man had arrived,
to the effect that this man whose initials
appeared on the tobacco ticket
used the day before, had carelessly
thrown his tobacco together and sold
three different grades of the weed all
in one pile and that he must have received
for the whole pile about the
price that the lowest grade in it was
worth. The old tobacco man agreed
that this was the truth and that he
agreed with the reporter on every
point.
Some of the tobacco in that big pile
was worth at least from forty to sixty
five cents, some more of it must >mv#?
been worth at least from thirty to
forty cents, and the lowest grades in
it would have brought round twenty
five cents; but the farmer who hadl
grown it had jumbled it all together
and put it on the floor all in a heap
juid mixed up together, and he had received
for the whole pile only about
.what the very lowest grade leaves
were worth.
The strange part about this pile of
tobacco was that it could have been
divided into two grades by merely
separating the handfuls, and without
opening up the handfuls into which
the grower had tied the leaves. It was
by tearing up some of the handfuls
that the three grades could have been
produced as hereinabove explained.
The newspaper man was convinced,
after looking over a number of other
piles that had been sold there the day
before, that the growers lose thousands
of dollars every year by their
lack of knowledge of the tobacco
grades, their carelessness, yes, and
.their idolence and laziness, when it
conies to putting their product in the
right condition and shape for sale. It
is a pity that this i? so. More intellTgence
must be used or else there will
continue to be made more and more
money by the pinhookers and rehandlers
of the tobacco crop.
Any man with a modicum of either
common sense or "horse-sense" ought
to be able to find out that there are
certain differences in the tobacco
leaves he produces. He can see these
differences in the leaves while they
are yet in the field and as he picks
them for the curing barns. He can tell
the difference as he takes the leaves
r?ut of the barn and of course he can
tell when he goes to place the leaves
into suitable handfiils for the warehouse.
Those who can read ought to buy
every leaflet and read every article
that has been printed on the subject
of grading. Those who cannot read
can spend some time at the warehouses
and watch the sales and the
bids of the buyers, and he can learn
inough in the course of three or four
lays to make him open his eyes when
ie goes to get his tobacco ready for
he market.
Just as the man last week lost over
i hundred dollars on this pile of to>acco
that was looked over, just so
ire growers now losing big money evsry
day in failing to soe and know
vhat is as the noonday sun in th"
naking up of their tobacco into the
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NO. 17
GROANS EXCITE
CONWAY FAMILY
Wellons Finds Drunken Man
in Rear of Meat
Market
INCREASED USE APPEARS
Cases of Chronic Stomach
Trouble Follow Using
Monkeyrum
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One night last week, Mr. and Mrs.
R. S. Wellons were disturbed by
groans coming- from the street, or
near the corner where they live.
Their residence stands on Laurel
Street, near the corner of 4th Avenue
through which the national highway
now runs. The groans came from behind
the meat market established
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viicic hi mt: turner uy w. n. uranam.
The groans were evidently coming
from some man who was desperately
ill and after a few minutes Mr. Wel1
ons went Out to investigate.
He found an old Ford had been driven
from the street into the vacant
space behind the meat market. Down
inside the car between the seats lay a
white man whose face Mr. Wellons
could not see. He was dead to the
world with exception of his groans
The man's breath was coming in
gasps as he lay all crumpled up with
his face close down in the filth, grease
and rust of the machine. WiU\ each
gasping breath he emitted the groan
which testified to his bodily distress.
The strong scent of monkeyrum told
the tale of his trouble. There was nobody
else in sight about the place at
the time and Mr. Wellons did not attempt
to have him taken up by a policeman,
for before anything of this
kind could be done another man appeared
in the darkness and drove the
machine away.
Regardless of the teeth which prohibition
laws now carry with them,
and regardless of the eternal vigilance
of prohibition enforcement officers,
the strong drink is yet produced and
distributed under the very noses and
eyes of those same officer*. 1 '
Last week brought more signs of
monkeyrum in this section than had
been usual for several months past.
Just why this was would be hard to
tell. As many as five different persons
were seen under the influence of either
that or some other form of intoxication
in the course of the week in
Conway alone.
From far distant comers of the
county there were reports coming in
of a few raids being1 made on the stills
by the rural policemen of the county.
Those who drink anything: that
comes along which will produce intoxication
run one of the gravest risks
to good health that exists today.
There is no doubt of that fact. Instances
can be found and hrought
forth to prove that a man who follows
the drinking of monkeyrum for any
length of time, in addition to the
troubles which may come to him in the
law, is added stomach and kidney
troubles of ever varying kind. This
writer has heard of several who had to
quit or die. Persons who never bad
any stomach or intestinal trouble have
gone down under the influence of such
drinks, and often they may not know
the cause of their trouble and proceed
I to make matters worse for themselves
by taking more monkeyrum.
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WORK BEING DONE
Some needed work was being done
last week on renewing the finish at
,the Burroughs High School in the old
portion of the structure.
N. T. Johnson. Jack Green, E. G.
Norman, Arnold Lewis, and Jim
Stalvey were all busy putting on calsoniine
and refinishing the woodwork
of the old auditorium.
The seats had been taken up so that
.the floor could be varnished. As soon
as this work could be accomplished
.the seats would be replaced.
. This work will make the old part of
the building look in keeping with the
new part which was recently finished
up iii nice style.
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TIlP nPffrn wVin u-qo
..-r. V, VW^VW. ' .'V/ M HO ICVUHViy
arrested for practicing medicine without
a licefise was freed by a directed
verdict last week in the town court.
-uitnble grades.
Tt is time to c\ll a halt in such
waste of the hard-earned money that
is due for labor in the fields. ?t is the
fault, however, of tho.se who will not
try to study and improve their methods.
They must change their way of
doing these things. They must gain
knowledge and the ways of gaining
what is needed is open to every grower
whether he can read and write or
has to make his mark.
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Jp Our success as a town is for%|g
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X ever lost so long as we depend $
? on outside help to bring it to us. *
J When we learn to look to our*
selves we will, by #ur own ef- j*
% forts, compel that success which \\
* we crave. >t
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